Head to Head Analysis: Lifetime Brands (LCUT) and Its Peers

Lifetime Brands (NASDAQ:LCUT) is one of 47 publicly-traded companies in the “CONSM PD – MISC DIS” industry, but how does it weigh in compared to its rivals? We will compare Lifetime Brands to related businesses based on the strength of its institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations and dividends.

Analyst Ratings

This is a breakdown of recent recommendations for Lifetime Brands and its rivals, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Lifetime Brands	1	1	1	1	2.50
Lifetime Brands Competitors	294	1073	1056	49	2.35

Lifetime Brands presently has a consensus price target of $4.25, suggesting a potential downside of 13.79%. As a group, “CONSM PD – MISC DIS” companies have a potential upside of 22.96%. Given Lifetime Brands’ rivals higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Lifetime Brands has less favorable growth aspects than its rivals.

Profitability

This table compares Lifetime Brands and its rivals’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Lifetime Brands	-4.16%	4.66%	1.62%
Lifetime Brands Competitors	-11.06%	-5.41%	-1.03%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

40.6% of Lifetime Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 40.3% of shares of all “CONSM PD – MISC DIS” companies are held by institutional investors. 43.2% of Lifetime Brands shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 21.2% of shares of all “CONSM PD – MISC DIS” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Dividends

Lifetime Brands pays an annual dividend of $0.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Lifetime Brands pays out -13.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “CONSM PD – MISC DIS” companies pay a dividend yield of 3.2% and pay out 64.3% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Lifetime Brands is clearly a better dividend stock than its rivals, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Lifetime Brands and its rivals gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Lifetime Brands	$647.93 million	-$26.94 million	-3.98
Lifetime Brands Competitors	$2.79 billion	$76.96 million	-4.19

Lifetime Brands’ rivals have higher revenue and earnings than Lifetime Brands. Lifetime Brands is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its rivals, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Volatility & Risk

Lifetime Brands has a beta of 1.29, suggesting that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Lifetime Brands’ rivals have a beta of -0.32, suggesting that their average share price is 132% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Lifetime Brands beats its rivals on 11 of the 15 factors compared.

About Lifetime Brands

Lifetime Brands, Inc. designs, sources, and sells branded kitchenware, tableware, and other products for use in the home in the worldwide. The company provides kitchenware products, including kitchen tools and gadgets, cutlery, kitchen scales, thermometers, cutting boards, shears, cookware, pantryware, spice racks, and bakeware; and tableware products comprising dinnerware, stemware, flatware, and giftware. It also provides home solutions, such as thermal beverageware, bath scales, weather and outdoor household, food storage, neoprene travel, and home décor products. The company owns or licenses various brands, including the Farberware, Mikasa, Taylor, KitchenAid, Pfaltzgraff, BUILT NY, Rabbit, Kamenstein, S’well, and Fred & Friends. It serves mass market merchants, specialty stores, department stores, warehouse clubs, grocery stores, off-price retailers, food service distributors, food and beverage outlets, and e-commerce. The company sells its products directly, as well as through its retail websites. Lifetime Brands, Inc. was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Garden City, New York.